Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Call for papers on Special Issue: Young People’s Behavior
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2018-11-30
影响因子: 4.577
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CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区
• 小类 : 环境研究 - 2区
• 小类 : 交通运输 - 2区
• 小类 : 运输科技 - 3区
Overview
Reducing environmental loads from the transport sector requires the lowering of car dependence in people’s daily life. In this context, ‘peak car’ has been a hot research topic, especially in the context of developed countries and it has been argued that the decline of young people’s car ownership and usage contribute to this phenomenon. Unfortunately, no consensus has been achieved with respect to both the decline of young people’s car ownership and usage and what factors might influence this.
Travel behavior is an important part of life. Transport policy makers need to understand people’s decisions and life choices and the relevance to travel behavior. Behavioral differences between young people and older people are mainly due to the age difference and the era within which people grow. Age is a symbol of life experience, which has various effects on and meanings for different life choices and daily activities. However, most transportation studies have only focused on young people’s travel behavior itself and ignored the role of life-oriented factors in determining their travel behavior or differentiating their behaviors from other generations.
Bearing the above background in mind, this special issue is based on the life-oriented approach (Zhang, J. (2017) Life-oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy, Springer). The life-oriented approach argues that people’s life choices in various domains (e.g., residence, neighborhood, health, education, work, family life, leisure and recreation, finance, and travel behavior) are interdependent. For travel behavior, it further argues that travel may not only result from various life decisions, but also affect them, to which people’s quality of life is largely attributable.
The definition of young people is culturally and historically specific, varying through time and between different societies. Similar terms include young adults, youth, adolescent/adolescence, and teenagers. We welcome papers that address, but are not limited to, the following research issues about young people.
- Car ownership: Is it really true that more and more young people (mainly in developed countries) have been losing interest in owning a car, compared to prior generations? How can we better understand their decisions on car ownership?
- Car-sharing, bicycle-sharing, and mobility management: If more and more young people dislike cars, it is expected that those young people may prefer car-sharing and/or bicycle-sharing, and persuading them to give up owning a car or reducing the use of it under the framework of mobility management might be much easier.
- Migration and travel behavior: How does young people’s migration, residential and job mobility affect their travel behavior (including car ownership)? How different is the migration behavior of young people compared to prior generations?
- Built environment and activity-travel behavior: It is expected that young people may spend more time on out-of-home social activities. In such a case, how important is the residential environment to young people’s residential location and travel choices?
- Environmental attitudes: how do environmental attitudes affect young people’s travel choices? Are their environmental attitudes different from other population groups?
- Lifestyle and travel behavior: How can young people be encouraged to adopt healthy, environmentally friendly, and/or safety-conscious lifestyles, and how can the resulting lifestyle changes affect their travel behavior?
- ICT, social network, and action space: In recent years, young people are more likely to rely on various social media such as Facebook and LINE. How does the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) lead to changes in the formation of and communications within their social networks and daily action space?
- Subjective well-being and travel behavior: Are there any differences between young people and others, in their subjective well-being and travel behavior and why might this differ?